135 Comments for Rochester Subway

i once lived in rocherter when i was young. i have good memories there. i was a country girl bfore that, it was a wild thing for me. moved to leroy and then here in sc, and love it here. but love the history all over. i was surprise to see this one . thk u.

I was also born in Rochester and lived in Greece 11 years before I moved to Nashville, TN and I didnt even know there was a subway till after I moved down here. I would love to move back up there

When I last went down there, pictures of the "Happy Tree Friends" Graced the Walls and I think it was Giggles,Flippy, Nutty and Petunia!

Interesting observation, ChaserOne. I love learning about the old canal systems. So you think this is part of an old aquaduct from an old canal? Neat. That would put it in the area of the 1820's to up to the civil war in age, before trains were the chosen form of transport.

THATS THE AQUEDUCT!!!!!! I'VE WALKED FROM COURT STREET STATION TO THE AQUEDUCT!!!! I REALLY WANT TO GO TO CITY HALL STATION,OAK STREET STATION AND THE OAK STREET LOOP!!!!!!!!

I happen to know why that stone arch is there,if you look out the Aqueduct(one of the arches)back from where you came, you'll see a stone bridge(near the Dinosaur BBQ,Ex.Lehigh Valley Station) before the subway was built,there was a stone bridge going over the Canal bed(now the subway and I-490/590). By The Way,I-490 WAS the eastern end of the Subway, that 1 mile section of tunnel is the only remaining portion of the subway that is not filled in or converted. Most of the "Subway" was un-enclosed, and so in todays terms would be a light rail system.

hey mots u should go to Cincinnati where thers an entire subway network that was never used! Its awsome there are like 6 stations and even tunnels that reach the outside. I would love if u could come and see them..the pictures would be fantastic!

Archway to nowhere. Void darkness
that ascends upon you out the dark tunnel.

I remember when i worked at frontier telephone(local tell company in rochester) some homeless ppl had started a fire down there and destroyed many fiber and copper lines.

Any idea why that wire is running across like that? It looks like the kind of wire I use for electric fences, but I can't see it being very useful at that height...

Motts, your comment makes this picture even better! The crawlspace of the city...

There was several pages when I came online earlier. A lot of it was spam, and it's since been deleted.

2,3,4,or5 times, I know I spend half of my visit reading new comments!! (no I'm not bitching, I love the comments) ;-)

You have to go through them again. You may have missed something.

Trust me on this one. There was a couple pictures I missed here and there. I caught up with them when they started picking up 50 comments in one night. (LOL)

The thing about running out of pictures is, you can always start over and look at them again!!!!! ;-)